Land Cover Mapping From Multiple Complementary Experts Under Heavy Class Imbalance by Valerie Zermatten, Xiaolong Lu, Javiera Castillo-Navarro, Tobias Kellenberger, Devis Tuia

“…We compare our approach to other existing methods and also explore different logit aggregation methods, to identify the performance upper bounds and improvement directions. …”
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Examining the reliability of current micro-and nano-indentation-based rock mechanical upscaling schemes: a comprehensive comparison with uniaxial/triaxial macroscopic mechanical te... by Jianfeng Wang, Chao Yang, Yan Guo, Yuke Liu, Wenmin Jiang, Yadan Luo, Yuandong Wu, Yongqiang Xiong, Ping’an Peng

“…Therefore, more advanced methods are required to develop to make mechanical upscaling closer to the real situation of rocks.…”
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Urinary transferrin as an early biomarker of diabetic nephropathy by Terzić Brankica, Stanojević Ivan, Radojičić Zoran, Resan Mirko, Petrović Dejan, Maksić Đoko, Đekić Jelena, Ristić Petar, Petrović Milica, Mijušković Mirjana

“…All patients were older than 18, having the diabetic disease more than one year, glomerular filtration rate more than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. …”
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Assessment of sensory impairment in older adults with dementia by Nikol Gottfriedová, Martina Kovalová, Eva Mrázková, Ondřej Machaczka, Veronika Koutná, Vladimír Janout, Jana Janoutová

“…Color vision was rarely impaired in the sample. Participants with dementia tended to have more multisensory impairments than controls.…”
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Antibiotics Use for Dental or Oral Cavity Infections in Pediatric Dentistry: Knowledge and Prescribing Practices Between Italian Dentists by Martina Barone, Michele Basilicata, Giovanni Bruno, Christian Bacci, Patrizio Bollero, Raffaella Docimo, Antonio Gracco, Alberto De Stefani, Filippo Cavallari

“…For the complementary treatment of dental or oral cavity infections, Amoxicillin was the antibiotic indicated as the first choice for pediatric patients with no allergy to penicillins by most of the sample, while more than 20% of dentists would prescribe Clindamycin in patients with an allergy to penicillin. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Study of Madder-Associated Dyestuffs on Silk: Adsorption of Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Molecular Docking by Yujie Guo, Xudong Zhou, Lingfan Zhang, Xiyun Luo, Mengqi Wu, Wenqing Zhang

“…In this work, dyed samples were self-prepared from two methods including madder dyeing and mordant dyeing by madder combined with Al3+ at different temperatures, and their kinetics and isothermal adsorption were both discussed. …”
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Influencing Factor on School-Age Children’s Holistic Health Care Who Using Online Media by Working-Age Parents in Northeast Thailand by Atchariya Wonginchan, Juraporn Tangpukdee, Suphasak Wonginchan, Sureeporn Kearttiwongkru, Sujitra Konggungong

“…The aim was to study factors that influence working-age parents in holistic health care (HHC) of school-age children using online media in northeast Thailand. Materials and Methods. This research was a descriptive study, with a sample of parent amount 222. …”
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The Effects of Traditional Chinese Exercise in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Yingjie Zhang, Lulu Huang, Youxin Su, Zhengxuan Zhan, Yanan Li, Xingquan Lai

“…<h4>Background and aims</h4>Traditional Chinese exercise (TCE) includes a variety of exercise, which is being accepted by more and more people in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from different countries. …”
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Causation of Crohn’s Disease by Mycobacterium avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis by John Hermon-Taylor, Timothy John Bull, Joseph Michael Sheridan, Jun Cheng, Michael Laurence Stellakis, Nasira Sumar

“…MAP is harboured in the ileocolonic mucosa of a proportion of normal people and can be detected in a high proportion of full thickness samples of inflamed Crohn’s disease gut by improved culture systems and IS900 polymerase chain reaction if the correct methods are used. …”
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Impact of arm technique and elastic force on vertical jump performance in physical education students: a convergent validation study by Era Deva, Milaim Berisha

“…Materials and methods. Ten first-grade Sport Science students and ten professional soccer players from F.C. …”
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Hypoglycemic episodes among type 1 diabetic patients in Unaizah, Saudi Arabia: causes, management, and associated factors by S.K.S. Aldekheel, M.A.S. Shahin

“…A convenience sample of 280 type 1 diabetic clients living in the Qassim region of Unaizah City was selected. …”
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Empowerment Evaluation of Programs Involving Youth by Sarah Heath, Katherine Moreau

“…Of those who used EE, they used it to teach youth program stakeholders about evaluation (n=8, 24.2%), produce more authentic results by engaging youth as experts of their lived experience (n=7, 21.2%) or produce more useful results for stakeholders to use (n=6, 18.2%), as well as other less popular reasons. …”
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The Prevalence of Systemic Venous Congestion Post Kidney Transplant Detected by Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) by Santiago Beltramino, Agustín Manchado Bruno, Damián Fernández, Javier Walther, Gustavo Werber

“…Pulmonary congestion was more frequent: 70% (21/30) of the patients presented some degree of pulmonary congestion, and 30% (9/30) had moderate or severe congestion. …”
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Utilization of hospice and nonhospice care in patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis by Shu-Chen Wang, Kai-Chieh Hu, Wei-Chuan Chang, Chung-Y Hsu

“…We aim to understand trends in patients with ESRD receiving hospice and nonhospice care as well as medical care efforts during the last month of their lives (2009–2013). Materials and Methods: The cohort study was conducted using 1 million randomly selected samples from the Taiwan Health Insurance Research Database for millions of people in Taiwan in 2009–2013. …”
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The Effect of the Outbreak of Covid-19 on the Conservative Efficiency of Companies by AliAkbar Farzinfar, Mohammad Taghi Kabiri, Yassaman Khalili, Elham Darajati

“…The results of this research confirm that companies do not use conservative methods to neutralize the reduction of their efficiency (regardless of the period of covid-19 outbreak), the reason for this is the non-significance of the interaction coefficient of efficiency and efficiency and the dummy variable of efficiency. and the results of the examination of the second model indicated that regardless of the Corona period, companies have no desire to increase the use of conservative procedures in order to increase efficiency, while the examination of the third research model (which is actually the most complete model of this study) be), it is very remarkable and worthy of consideration, in the way that companies have been encouraged to use more conservative procedures during the Corona period, and in addition, the reduction in efficiency has also increased significantly in creating this incentive (in the mentioned period).…”
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A large-scale study of anxiety and depression in people with Multiple Sclerosis: a survey via the web portal of the UK MS Register. by Kerina H Jones, David V Ford, Philip A Jones, Ann John, Rodden M Middleton, Hazel Lockhart-Jones, Lisa A Osborne, J Gareth Noble

“…Women with relapsing-remitting MS were more anxious than men with this type (p<0.001), and than women with other types of MS (p = 0.017). …”
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Use of caffeine in 19,660 randomly selected U.S. adults: the role of overweight and obesity by Larry A. Tucker, Frank Beltran

“…The specific objective was to determine whether adults with higher BMIs or larger waist circumferences consume more or less caffeine than their counterparts.MethodsA sample of 19,660 randomly selected women and men, 20–75 years old, representing the U.S. adult population, was studied using a cross-sectional design. …”
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Serological markers suggest heterogeneity of effectiveness of malaria control interventions on Bioko Island, equatorial Guinea. by Jackie Cook, Immo Kleinschmidt, Christopher Schwabe, Gloria Nseng, Teun Bousema, Patrick H Corran, Eleanor M Riley, Chris J Drakeley

“…This has resulted in substantial reductions in the parasite burden, although this drop has not been uniform across the island.<h4>Methods/principal findings</h4>In 2008, filter paper blood samples were collected from 7387 people in a cross-sectional study incorporating 18 sentinel sites across Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. …”
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Universal screening or a universal risk assessment combined with risk-based screening for multidrug-resistant microorganisms upon admission: Comparing strategies. by Adriënne S van der Schoor, Juliëtte A Severin, Corné H W Klaassen, Johannes P C van den Akker, Marco J Bruno, Johanna M Hendriks, Margreet C Vos, Anne F Voor In 't Holt

“…While the universal screening identified more MDRO carriers, further research is needed to determine the cost-effectiveness of this strategy.…”
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Associated factors and quality of life in women with urinary incontinence in southern Peru, 2023 by Gema Sologuren-García, Carmen L. Linares, Jackeline R. Flores, Gloria Escobar-Bermejo, Soledad Sotelo-Gonzales, Cristhel K. Fagerstrom

“…There is an association between quality of life and UI, with MUI being more frequent.…”
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